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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Heya chap, firstly thanks for your reply, I've tried what you suggested and no error is returned however when I do lsmod I can see it loaded (And listed against the PCMCIA interface) but when I do ifconfig -a I still can see no eth0 or other adapter which looks like it may be my card.

ok, let's try the following:
- boot the Toshiba without the 3c574 plugged in
- insert the 3c574 card
- check if the 3c574_cs was loaded with lsmod
- check the last page of the /var/log/messages file for any relevant messages and tell me what you found

I tested my 3c562 card and in /var/log messages I could see the lines from pcmcia and then the creation of the eth1 adapter using the 3c589_cs module.
It became eth1 because it has a built-in adapter that is eth0...

I then configured the card with "ifconfig 192.168.x.y", giving it an IP address.

I'm working in the dark here, as I do not have your card or notebook, but it should be quite similar.

Ok so I had another quick look. I found that when I did pccardctl info I got not a lot, so I tried running pcmcia-socket-startup and that seemed to do it. I can now see eth0. I just can't see why that doesn't run on startup.

Really quite odd. I'll keep reading. Any ideas out there as to why this does not happen automatically ?

/lib/udev/rules.d/60-pcmcia.rules needs to be edited so that the second to last line runs /sbin/pcmcia-socket-startup.
The rule file gives the wrong path to the command. (At least it did on my fresh install of 12.2 off the dvd).

/lib/udev/rules.d/60-pcmcia.rules needs to be edited so that the second to last line runs /sbin/pcmcia-socket-startup.
The rule file gives the wrong path to the command. (At least it did on my fresh install of 12.2 off the dvd).

That's correct for 12.2. It has been corrected in Slackware-current with a symbolic link on April, 20.